In our book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Lawrence Stratton and I showed that [>] long before 9/11 US law had ceased to be a shield of the people and had been turned into a weapon in the hands of the government.

The event known as 9/11 was used to raise the executive branch above the law. As long as the President sanctions an illegal act, executive branch employees are no longer accountable to the law that prohibits the illegal act.

On the president’s authority, the executive branch can violate US laws against spying on Americans without warrants, indefinite detention, and torture and suffer no conseque

Obama asserts that the US Constitution notwithstanding, he has the authority to assassinate US citizens, who he deems to be a “threat,” without due process of law

On September 30 Obama used this asserted new power of the president and had two American citizens, Anwar Awlaki and Samir Khan murdered.

NOTE!

Khan was a wacky character associated with Inspire Magazine and does not readily come to mind as a serious threat.

The time has arrived where we must understand the realities of the dark forces amongst us.

Moody's on Tuesday downgraded the standalone rating for State Bank of India, the country's dominant lender, citing "modest" capital and weakening asset quality, sending its shares to a two-year low and rattling the broader Indian market

The time has arrived where we must understand the realities of the dark forces amongst us.

It began as the brainchild of activists across the border in Canada when an anti-consumerism magazine put out a call in July for supporters to occupy Wall Street.

Now, three weeks after a few hundred people heeded that initial call and rolled out their sleeping bags in a park in New York's financial district, they are being joined by supporters in cities across the US and beyond

The time has arrived where we must understand the realities of the dark forces amongst us.

Al-Jazeera was conceived by two French-Israeli personalities, the David and Jean Frydman brothers, after the assassination of their friend Yitzhak Rabin.

According to David, the goal was to create a medium where Israelis and Arabs could discuss freely, exchange arguments and get to know each other, considering this was prevented by the war situation thereby frustrating any peace prospect.

For the creation of the channel, the Frydman brothers benefited from a combination of circumstances: the Orbit Saudi company had reached an agreement with the BBC to set up a news broadcast in Arabic.

But the political demands posed by the absolutist Saudi monarchy quickly proved incompatible with the professional independence of British journalists. The agreement was terminated and the majority of Arabic BBC journalists found themselves out on the street.

They were then recruited to launch Al-Jazeera.

The time has arrived where we must understand the realities of the dark forces amongst us.

A suicide bomber [anti-Superpopwer fighter] driving a truck laden with explosives detonated his cargo after stopping at a checkpoint outside a Mogadishu compound housing several [puppet] government ministries

The time has arrived where we must understand the realities of the dark forces amongst us.

President al-Assad Discusses with Lebanese Delegation the Situation in Syria and the Pressure Targeting Its Pan-Arab and National Stances

A Mujahideen official reports Tuesday that as many as 16 US invaders have been killed and many others gotten hurt in three powerful blast[s] carried out by Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate through much of the day in Wardag province.